Welcome back to the least frequently updated blog. I've been meaning to post for a long time but I can never access the damn site because k set it up. Anyways here I am on some down time from house reno's. It seems like lots has been happening but not much has changed if you know what I mean.
We are well settled into the new digs and plodding on through the endless list of "Things To Do". Grandad Derek has been of great assistance lately and I will post more up to date photos next time. i have been making stready progress over the last three weeks as Harper has been at Nana's in Chch and is not back until 21 dec. I did not miss him at all the first couple of weeks but have spoken to him since and can't wait to have him back home. I skim plastered his room today so should have it painted by the weekend. Yay!
Attached myself to the end of a 2000psi water blaster for the weekend so the basement is close to ready to paint and finished the prep on the roof yesterday. The spare room is more or less done and the garage is showing some semblence of order at last.
Some things are gone. About 3-4 tonnes of agapanthas for a start and good bloody riddance to them too. Also a very sad farewell to the "Phenomenary". That's my car (which is pictured), which went where all cars end up going when they fail a warrant every six months. it was a fantastic replacement for the "Extromenal" but alas became an unnecessary expense. I now get around at work in Kimpy's, beyond boring, white toyota corolla. It saps a little of your will to live every time you drive it and raises not a smile or guffaw anywhere it goes...but it's reliable....snore
While Harper's been gone I have ridden my bike, grindingly slowly uphill but fast and rercklessly enough downhill to put a smile on the dial. Also played 9 holes of pitch 'n' putt with Derek. The first shot I tried with my new three wood saw the ball disappear into thin air and the head detatch itself and fly a respectable 80 yards down the fairway. seemed a fair place to play my second from.
Harper got up close and personal with fireworks for the first time and seemed to enjoy the experience. "they're breaking the sky" he'd exclaim as various roman candles cannoned up towards the low hanging clouds. Sweeney was disappointed not to set anything on fire with his sparklers.
